It’s hard to remember today, but a few decades ago many conservatives were keen environmentalists. Consider Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, who marshalled the world community to fight acid rain and advocated for a global “law of the atmosphere.” U.S. president George H.W. Bush championed renewable fuels and strengthened the Clean Air Act. “Every city in America,” declared Bush the Elder, “should have clean air.”
How did the fossil fuel industry manage to raise a generation of climate change deniers? A research group has just identified a big component of that attitude shift: the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign to bury the truth by cozying up to universities and discrediting climate science.
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